SEPTEMBER 17th, 2016: 8th Annual Clear Creek Watershed Festival with the Clear Creek Watershed Foundation and Colorado State University Extension | Clear Creek County. Discover what's in your watershed! This is a hands-on learning experience. Start at the Festival Passport Check-in and begin your journey visiting with 25+ environmental stations. This festival features live music, climbing tower, snowmaking, goldpanning, fishing, fly-tying and a celebrity appearance with Woodsy Owl of the U.S. Forest Service. After visiting all of the passport stations you receive a free lunch. For more information visit www.clearcreekwater.org.

SEPTEMBER 18th, 2016: 6th Annual Headwaters Hoedown from 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm at a NEW LOCATION, La Garita Creek Ranch, Saguache County. Join the Rio Grande Headwaters Land Trust for the conservation event of the year! The Hoedown will feature music by Don Richmond & the Rifters, locally sourced food by Pepita's Catering, a fabulous silent auction (including unique experiences and gear for fishermen!), archaeology tours, and so much more. For more information about the Headwaters Hoedown, including an event schedule, visit their website at www.riograndelandtrust.org.

SEPTEMBER 22nd, 2016: Careers in Natural Resources Summit. Your organization will learn how to develop training modules tailored for your participants to build pathways to careers in natural resources. Attending organizations will receive a toolkit including hard copies of the career manual, “A How-To Guide for Pursuing a Career in Natural Resources” and digital resources including training activities, presentations, and more! This event is FREE and lunch will be provided due to support from Colorado State Forest Service, Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, Bureau of Land Management, and US Forest Service. Registration will open this summer. For more information go to the Colorado Youth Corps Association.

SEPTEMBER 23rd - 25th, 2016: Colorado Annual Student Water Field Conference hosted by Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colo. Itinerary includes dinner at Fruita State Park, a tour of river restoration and diversions along Colorado River’s Riverfront Trail in Grand Junction, followed by a farm tour and a farm dinner in the lower Grand Valley. Students work in groups to develop plans for sharing what they have learned when they return home. For additional information, contact Gigi Richard at: 970.248.1689, grichard@coloradomesa.edu.

SEPTEMBER 24th, 2016: National Public Lands Day at Barr Lake State Park from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm. There will be a Shoreline Cleanup at the park and a Dog Days Celebration from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm. After you’ve gotten some instant gratification from picking up trash along the shore, let your canine friend enjoy a bone bar, a pool party and Paw Print Art. Giveaways and free park entrance for participants. It should be a really fun day. Preregistration requested – call 303-659-6005 to RSVP. Meet at the Nature Center.

SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2016: Environmental Learning for Kids (ELK) Riversweep Project on the South Platte River from 8:00 am – 12:00 pm. ELK youth will be participating in a river sweep project along the South Platte River with participants from partner organizations, Spree and cityWILD. Throughout the program, youth will learn about common pollutants, the science behind water quality testing and the importance of their roles in preserving the environment for generations to come. Must RSVP to Amy Wright if you would like to attend this event: awright@elkkids.org.

SEPTEMBER 24th, 2016: Colorado Tree Coalition 2016 TOUR DE POUDRE BIKE RIDE from 7:00 am – 1:00 pm. The Tour de Poudre is a one-day bike ride offering 35 and 60 mile routes, you choose! The bike ride starts and finishes at Swingle Lawn, Tree and Landscape Care’s office in Fort Collins, Colorado. This ride will raise money for tree planting and tree research. Costs (non-refundable): $60 per person or $110 per couple, $50 per person for a team of 3 or more people. Fee includes commemorative event tee shirt for the first 50 participants, as well as lunch and drinks for all. Ride start/finish: 1805 E Lincoln Ave., Fort Collins, CO. Registrations must be submitted by September 10, 2016. Click HERE for more information and to register online.

SEPTEMBER 25th – 28th, 2016: Geological Society of America (GSA) 2016 meeting to be held in Denver.GSA’s mission includes: Scientific Research, Scientific Communication, Geologic Time, Technological Innovation, Geologic Hazards, Sustainability, and Natural Resources. Registration, technical programs, poster sessions, and exhibits will be held at the Colorado Convention Center. GSA Field Trips will also depart from the Colorado Convention Center. The Hyatt Regency Denver at CCC is the headquarter hotel where the majority of non-technical events will be held. Meeting abstracts are due July 12. For more information click HERE.

SEPTEMBER 26th, 2016: Climate Change and Disaster Law - Book Release starting at 5:30 pm, at the University of Colorado School of Law, Wolf Law Building, Wittemyer Courtroom. Featuring Rosemary Lyster, University of Sydney Law School, Professor of Climate and Environmental Law, Director, Australian Center for Climate and Environmental Law. This is free and open to the public. You must be registered to attend. More information and registration available HERE.

SEPTEMBER 27th, 2016: Joint Forum of the Animas Watershed Partnership and the San Juan Watershed Group from 7:00 PM – 9:00 pm at Riverside Park under Pavilion 1 in Aztec, NM. Join them for an evening outdoors by the Animas River! Their speaker Michaelene Kyrala from NMED will present: The Gold King Mine Citizens’ Advisory Committee Update: the committee, the purpose and members, and highlights from previous meetings. Following this presentation, they will show the National Geographic “Chasing Rivers” Film. Popcorn and lemonade provided! There are picnic tables for seating, but feel free to bring your own chair and snacks. For more information, please contact Rachel Hoffman, AWP Outreach Coordinator, healthyanimas.awp@gmail.com.

SEPTEMBER 28th – 30th, 2016: Heart of Colorado Rural Philanthropy Days. Summit County will host the 2016 Heart of Colorado RPD Conference for Chaffee, Clear Creek, Custer, Fremont, Gilpin, Lake, Park, Summit, and Teller Counties. Take advantage of capacity building opportunities, collaborative dialogue and the signature funder roundtables. Check out which capacity building sessions will be offered during the conference and start planning how to make the most of your time at RPD. For more information and to register click HERE.

SEPTEMBER 29th, 2016: 6th Annual Carver Colloquium, Water for Sale: Prior Appropriation or Free Market Trade? This event takes place from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm followed by a reception at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. The Colloquium features a debate about whether water should continue to be allocated using prior appropriation or if a free market system would be better. Colorado’s water law is based on the beneficial use of “first in time, first in right” water allocations. But because of increasing demand and limited availability, water is also a hot commodity economically. This event will examine the legal basis and legitimacy of both systems for Colorado’s water future. Join in person at the Sturm College of Law or watch the live feed online. Admission is free, but you must registerHERE to attend.

SEPTEMBER 29th, 2016: The Institute for Environmental Solutions (IES) will host the quarterly Consortium for Research and Education on Emerging Contaminants (CREEC) meeting in Denver. The meeting will focus on behavior change methods and strategies to prevent water contamination from contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). At this meeting, IES will provide an introduction to community-oriented preventive strategies for confronting chemical contaminants at their sources, and the natural and social science foundations on which these strategies are built. They will present IES’s proposed 2016 Save Our Water Initiative project. For more information go to creec.net.

OCTOBER 6TH, 2016: 10th Annual Brews, Boots and Bucks, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm, Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver, Colorado. Join the Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts (CCLT) in celebrating land conservation in Colorado! This year's program features Luis Benitez, the first director of Colorado’s new Outdoor Recreation Industry Office for a conversation with CCLT Executive Director Amanda Barker on how private land conservation and the outdoor recreation industry are working together. For more information visit their website, www.cclt.org.

OCTOBER 7th, 2016: 2016 West Slope Environmental Education Conference - Bringing Colorado's EE Plan to Life. This conference will be held from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at the Ridgway State Park Group Event Facility, located in Pa-Co-Chu-Puk area of the park. Join environmental education (EE) providers and supporters from agencies, nonprofits, schools, and environmental, nature, conservation fields for an engaging summit. Learn more about the Colorado Environmental Education Plan, network and share ideas, and find inspiration from innovative EE leaders. For more information and registration go to www.caee.org.

October 8th, 2016: The Friends of Barr Lake’s 4th Annual Harvest Fest at Barr Lake State Park from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm. There will be lots of fun activities for the kiddos including a petting zoo, face painting, hay rides and a pumpkin market. For more information, contact barr.lake.nature.center@state.us.co or call 303-659-6005.

OCTOBER 11th - 13th, 2016: Sustaining Colorado Watersheds Conference: A River Runs Out of It: Building Strong Upstream Communities. The Colorado Watershed Assembly in partnership with the Colorado Foundation for Water Education and the Colorado Riparian Association hosts this conference focused on cooperation and collaboration throughout Colorado in natural resource conservation, protection, and enhancement. Registration Opens July 2016! Visit our Conference Pagefor more information.

OCTOBER 11th, 2016: ThinkWater Workshop in Avon Colorado with the Water Educator Network at the Sustaining Colorado Watersheds Conference. We are fortunate to have Jeremy Solin coming in from the University of Wisconsin to lead us in a ThinkWater workshop. You, your colleagues, networks, members, and your students are invited as well as anyone else who may be interested. This workshop will teach us skills to teaching thinking skills so that our program participants and students are better able to understand the content being delivered. Our participants need skills and structure to understand and apply the water content delivered in education programs. Systems thinking provides those skills and structure. Systems thinking can help us better design and deliver education programs. Register HERE.

NOVEMBER 2nd & 3rd, 2016: The Sixth Annual Upper Colorado River Basin Forum will be held at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction. The theme is"Complex Systems in Flux: Changing Relationships between Water, People and the Environment." They have a CALL FOR ABSTRACTS on presentation proposals from water managers, policy makers, scholars and other stakeholders. The call for abstracts is available here.

DECEMBER 2nd, 2016: Save the date, The 8th Annual Colorado WaterWise Water Conservation Summit is coming on at St Cajetans, Auraria Campus. Visit ColoradoWaterWise.org to register and be a part of this great event.